How dependent are you on technology?

I was thinking about this last night as I was going out with some friends. To get to the restaurant and bar, I googled each of them, got their address, plugged them into my phone navigation, and headed out. Without my phone, I'd have been screwed because I've never been that good at reading maps, and taking my eyes off the road to look at Mapquest directions would suck.

All of my phone contacts are in my phone. If I were somewhere without my phone and needed to call my mom or my best friend...I couldn't. I no longer know people's cell phone numbers.

I no longer know what channel, day or time television shows are on. I just come home, fire up the Tivo 1-2 times a week, and there they are.

I'm not sure I've possessed a phone book in the past six years. I get all my phone numbers off the internet.

Surely I can't be alone. How dependent are YOU on technology?

 

98%

 

I refuse to vote in internet polls, because I'm afraid THEY are watching me.

 

They're not. But I am.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAH!

(I heart technology)

 

I used to figure as long as I didn't have a cell phone, I was fine.

Then I figured as long as I didn't text, I was fine.

Then I figured as long as I still read the hard copy of the newspaper, I was fine.

Then I figured as long as I didn't Facebook, I was fine.

Now I figure as long as I don't Twitter, I'm fine.

That should last 'til Tuesday PLAY VOICES CARRY!!!!

 

Add me on Twitter, rube.

 

Come over to the dark side, BYH. Start Tweeting, dammit.

 

I download episodes of my favorite shows cause I'm too cheap to pay for Tivo Another of my new favorite things is getting certain people's Facebook updates as texts on my phone.

I'm completely dependent on it, really.

 

Dependent away from work?

Maybe 1%

 

At first, I wasn't sure if this question was actually meant for the Single Ladies of SportsJournalists.com . . . .



;D ;D

Anyway . . . .

Somewhat, mostly for communication. But I'm limited to Internet and a cell phone. I use Mapquest printouts all the time.

 

Isn't that just text messaging, but on a network? What happens when that becomes obsolete? Jump to the next network? I admit to knowing little about it.

 

I should say, I could get by just fine without any of it, I think. I did at one time, anyway. It's a quality of life thing, though.

Except for phone numbers. Cell phones have atrophied the part of my brain that I use to remember phone numbers.

We were sitting around drinking beer back home over Thanksgiving, and I could still rattle off all my buddies' home phone numbers from high school.

I don't know anyone's cell phone number. I click on their name.